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Husky25 said:
Broadcast value is not estimated in this case. ESPN owns the rights for both the ACC and soon, the SEC. Why would they elect to pay more for two schools in the SEC, when they are getting them for a comparable bargain in the ACC?
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There are any number of good reasons why they would.

For one, they'd love to stop subsidizing Wake Forest, BC, Syracuse, Pitt and Va Tech.

Two, the FSU President couldn't have been clearer this week when he said FSU HAS TO explore joining the SEC.

In many ways this is bigger than ESPN. They want a super conference outside the NCAA and Florida State might remember way back when it was way outside the top leagues looking in. FSU has been a top football school for 55 years now. Before that, it was like Cincinnati. Granted that's a very long time, but some of these folks have long memories.

The tweet above throws cold water on the rumor mill about Clemson and FSU--did the tweeter miss the fact that the President of FSU gave an interview about all of this?
 
Husky25 said:
Broadcast value is not estimated in this case. ESPN owns the rights for both the ACC and soon, the SEC. Why would they elect to pay more for two schools in the SEC, when they are getting them for a comparable bargain in the ACC?
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ESPN wouldn't pay more. The broadcast rights to the home games of Florida State and Clemson cost ESPN about the same regardless of conference affiliation.

Let's arbitrarily declare that ESPN estimates that Florida State home games are worth $50 million per year. Subtracting the Seminoles from ACC would reduce that conference's overall annual broadcast value by $50 million. And ESPN likely would invoke the composition clause of its ACC media contract to reduce its payment to the league by $50 million per year.

Adding Florida State to the SEC would meanwhile add $50 million per year in value to the conference's pooled broadcast rights. And the SEC would assuredly invoke the composition clause in its deal with ESPN to seek the addition of that $50 million per year.

What many neglect is that both ESPN and Fox stabilized the Big 12 a decade ago. They allowed the league to keep the same overall payout after the exchange of Nebraska, Colorado, Missouri and Texas A&M for TCU and West Virginia. The league's overall valuation had drastically changed. The networks opted to overpay to calm things down.
 
huskymedic said:
You’re turn Clemson:

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I do not believe him. What does he mean by "contact"? Does he know what the meaning of "is" is? He's the one encouraging his administration to definitely look into moving from the ACC--out of necessity.
 
The SEC would certainly trade South Carolina for Clemson
but adding Clemson with South Carolina doesn’t seem like an SEC move . The only states with two teams will be Texas and Tennessee. Vanderbilt was always an odd fit., but they‘re legacy and would never be considered for addition today,nor would they be dumped.
They just told Texas A&M to take a walk if they didn’t want Texas.
so South Carolina wasn’t the issue .
I think the B1G screwed up Big Time in not adding Texas
I realize Okla is repugnant to the Powers in that conference
but Texas plus Kansas would have been great for Nebraska, and Iowa. Apparently they lack leadership at the moment.
 
I'm not sure Texas wanted to go to the B1G, even if asked. Texas and OK fit much better in the SEC.
 
upstater said:
There are any number of good reasons why they would.

For one, they'd love to stop subsidizing Wake Forest, BC, Syracuse, Pitt and Va Tech.

Two, the FSU President couldn't have been clearer this week when he said FSU HAS TO explore joining the SEC.

In many ways this is bigger than ESPN. They want a super conference outside the NCAA and Florida State might remember way back when it was way outside the top leagues looking in. FSU has been a top football school for 55 years now. Before that, it was like Cincinnati. Granted that's a very long time, but some of these folks have long memories.

The tweet above throws cold water on the rumor mill about Clemson and FSU--did the tweeter miss the fact that the President of FSU gave an interview about all of this?
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The full interview is not quoted by the twitterati...the rest of the story...where President Thrasher says that the GOR makes it near impossible for FSU to actually leave the ACC.

“At the end of the day, it’s all about money,” Thrasher said. “It’s all about TV revenue, contracts. Nobody can leave a conference without a significant buyout penalty, including us, so it would have to be something very special for us to leave.


I think he is pushing the ACC to do what it can...take a couple of schools, etc.
 
huskymedic said:
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That kind of bugs me a bit. I feel like KU is a variation on Connecticut with less basketball success and documented history of basketball cheating.

Oh but they are AAU... probably cheat to get grants too.
 
billybud said:
The full interview is not quoted by the twitterati...the rest of the story...where President Thrasher says that the GOR makes it near impossible for FSU to actually leave the ACC.

“At the end of the day, it’s all about money,” Thrasher said. “It’s all about TV revenue, contracts. Nobody can leave a conference without a significant buyout penalty, including us, so it would have to be something very special for us to leave.


I think he is pushing the ACC to do what it can...take a couple of schools, etc.
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It would have to be very special.

More special than the SEC?
 
CL82 said:
That kind of bugs me a bit. I feel like KU is a variation on Connecticut with less basketball success and documented history of basketball cheating.

Oh but they are AAU... probably cheat to get grants too.
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Why now for the B1G? It could have added Kansas at any point.
 
If that happens the BIG is weaker then I thought. Grabbing SEC scraps basically. SEC we got TX and OK...BIG oh yeah...we just grabbed KU......
 
Kansas to B1G is all over the social media now. It would be bad move to add ISU and Kansas to counter the SEC.
 
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